Married. Linda Hope, 29, ash-blonde daughter of Comedian Bob, eldest of his four adopted children and presently carving a career for herself as a documentary-film maker; and Nathaniel Greenblatt Lande, 34, former creative projects director at Time Inc. and now a producer-director (The Pushcart Wars) at Universal City Studios, who met Linda last July, asked for her hand in October in a three hour session with his prospective father-in-law (said Hope of Nat, who stands 6 ft. 6 in. tall: "I'm glad we're getting a control tower in the family"); in a Roman Catholic ceremony (with rabbinical blessing) at St. Charles Borromeo Church in North Hollywood.

Died. William C. Baggs, 46, editor of the Miami News since 1957, whose two unofficial trips to North Viet Nam produced Hanoi's preconditions for peace talks with the U.S.; of pneumonia; in Miami Beach. Baggs liked to refer to himself as "just a small-town boy from Georgia," but he was a worldly, tough-minded liberal who championed Negro civil rights in the face of sulphurous attacks from many of his readers. In 1967, and again last year, he and another Southern editor, Harry Ashmore, visited North Viet Nam, gained an interview with Ho Chi Minh and returned home with the President's proposal of a bombing halt as a basis for negotiations. Baggs' own opposition to the war earned him a barrage of billingsgate from hawks--who in turn received a rubber-stamp reply: "This is not a simple life, my friend, and there are no simple answers."

Died. Daisy and Violet Hilton, 60, Siamese twins who became a standard attraction on the old vaudeville circuit for three decades; of pneumonia; in Charlotte, N.C. The pygopagus (joined at the base of the spine) daughters of an English barmaid, Daisy and Violet were brought to the U.S. at the age of eight as sideshow oddities. They learned to play the saxophone, worked up a boffo act, made as much as $1,000 a week. But by 1960, their renown and resources had all but evaporated. They arrived in Charlotte to promote a film, The Freaks, stayed on to work in a local supermarket. The twins once bitterly summed up their lot by saying, "The only bargain we get is our weight for a penny."

Died. Guy Emerson, 82, protean financier and philanthropist who served as a vice-president of Bankers Trust Company from 1923 until 1947, directed the distribution of the famous Samuel H. Kress art collections, was regarded as one of the country's leading amateur ornithologists, and wrote three books, including The Birds of Martha's Vineyard; in North Falmouth, Mass.

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